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Review Of Deconstructing Morphology: Word Formation In Syntactic Theory, By Rochelle Lieber, Gregory Stump Jan 1993

Review Of Deconstructing Morphology: Word Formation In Syntactic Theory, By Rochelle Lieber, Gregory Stump

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Directionality And The Processing Of Contracted Auxiliaries, Gregory Stump Jan 1983

Directionality And The Processing Of Contracted Auxiliaries, Gregory Stump

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In a recent paper on the status of morphology in a generative theory of grammar, Zwicky (1982a) has argued “that processes of cliticization and readjustment together constitute a component of grammatical description in any language, a component related to others by strict principles of precedence…that syntactic rules, as a set, can feed or bleed rules of cliticization/readjustment (but not vice versa)” (Zwicky 1982b:51). Here, I shall consider the question of whether such an assumption of strict directionality can be maintained in a theory of language processing, in which generative rules of syntax and cliticization are replaced with rules of parsing …